Netflix Is Producing A Lot Of Shows About Orthodox Jews — Here’s Why Some Members Of The Community Aren’t Happy About That

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Netflix Is Producing A Lot Of Shows About Orthodox Jews — Here’s Why Some Members Of The Community Aren’t Happy About That
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“The average secular person watching a show like this is going to have no context for that kind of community, and so these shows have an enormous amount of power.”

— and how the community feels about them. Here's some of what we learned:

And so because of that, particularly Orthodox Jews who have more of a foot in the modern world have objected to what they see as a kind of one-dimensional or one-sided portrayal of ultra-Orthodoxy in popular entertainment. That said...I talked to one woman who left New Square, which is a community in New York where men and women walk on opposite sides of the street. It's a very, very, very highly observant, maybe the most repressive form of Judaism that's practicing in the United States, and even this woman who left a really oppressive community said that, in some ways, she doesn't agree with the representation that these groups get on television because she thinks it's too one-sided.

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